Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Floyd that stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks, a listener has a distinct sense of deja vu. Mysterious rumbling noises on Cluster One, the first song, set a cosmic tone, and then comes What Do You Want from Me, with its languid beat and spare, spaced-out ambiance. It all seems reminiscent of the band's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, which sold more than 15 million copies and stayed on Billboard's Top 200 album chart for an astounding 15 years. Given that success, who wouldn't want to return...
...doesn't always have to defy the U.N. to achieve his goals. Although Security Council resolutions forbid Iraq to possess or develop weapons of mass destruction, they place no such ban on his conventional-arms industry. Using a clandestine technology-procurement network never fully dismantled, Saddam continues to buy spare parts for T-72 tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built laboratories...
...embargo. Court documents show that the couple made more than 100 shipments to Iraq over the past three years, including equipment that could be used for ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. "These aren't the Rosenbergs," says a customs agent. "But we have established that they shipped equipment and spare parts of potential use to a revived Iraqi bomb program." The couple have been indicted for violating the Iraq embargo and will go on trial in mid-June...
...disk storage to handle all the new programs and services that the company wants to offer. At first the engineers thought they could store hundreds of movies on a so-called terabyte file server (which can hold the equivalent of 1 million floppy disks) and still have room to spare. Now they realize they will need a server twice that big. Although the prices of these components will eventually come down, right now the start-up cost of Time Warner's Orlando project is reported to be about $5,000 a household. Says Gary Arlen, a cable-TV consultant based...
INTERVIEW: Can't Spare...